"This book offers a fresh perspective on North American history, and the key role played by Halifax and Victoria in ensuring that Canada emerged as an independent country in the 20th century. Brian Elson focuses on the significance of the bases for the all-powerful British navy …
An in-depth look at the history of the Royal Canadian Navy to World War I.
Japan is quintessentially by geography a maritime country. Maritime surveillance capabilities: underwater, shore-based and airborne are critical to its national defence posture. This book describes and assesses these capabilities, with particular respect to the underwater segmen…
Defensive Positions focuses on the role of regional domains in early modern Japan's coastal defense, shedding new light on this system's development. This examination, in turn, has significant long-term political implications for the involvement of those domains in Tokugawa stat…
